This week at the iSchool

iSchoolers in the News

Informatics students Lit Phansiri, Cassandra Beaulaurier, Alexis Gregerson and Emmanuel Gambliel found themselves in the news unexpectedly after Mount Rainier’s camping reservation system melted down recently. For their Capstone project, the students are working on a replacement system to be launched in early 2017. We talked with them about their project.

Associate Professor Jacob Wobbrockwrote a piece for CoMotion, the UW’s innovation hub, on what separates a great innovation from an ordinary one.

Associate Professor Hala Annabi, Ph.D. student Annuska Perkins, TASCHA Principal Research Scientist Mike Crandall and Ph.D. candidate Sheryl Day were among the presenters at our annual iAffiliates Day. Here’s a roundup of the event, which highlights the impact of the iSchool and opportunities for partners to collaborate.

Elsewhere in Information News

From Pew Research, here’s a great example of an easy-to-follow data visualization that tells a compelling story. It shows how the ideological divide between Democrats and Republicans has grown since the 1990s.

The U.S. Supreme Court quietly instituted a new rule that expands the FBI’s power to hack computers. It allows a judge in any jurisdiction to approve a warrant allowing agents to access a computer without knowing its location.